普通话推广的经济学分析

人类对语言的选择是一个理性的选择过程。它取决于语言运用带来的预期收益和预期成本。语言的预期收益和预期成本由使用语言的人数决定,又受到社会开放度与自由度、经济社会发展水平、学习语言天赋和所学语言与母语的关系等因素的影响。语言的理性选择理论证明了语言的最小有效规模和路径依赖特性。由此,我们可以说明在普通话推广过程中的很多问题,并为今后的普通话推广工作提供相应的对策。

Economic analysis on the popularization of the common spoken Chinese

Language choosing which is a rational process is decided by the anticipated profits and costs of using the language.And they in turn are decided by the number of people who use the language,the degree of opening and freedom,level of social and economic development, people's ability of language acquisition, and the relations between their native language and the target language,etc.The theory of rational language choosing explains the minimum efficient scale and the quality of route dependence.The above can explain the problems in popularizing the common spoken Chinese ,and put forward some approaches to the course.